Medicine: Ocean Wanderer

A student who was six weeks late for the opening of school sailed into
Boston last week. Within 24 hours he was elected president of his
class, and so became the guest of honor at a big beer party in the
austere lobby of Harvard's dignified School of Public Health. The
student was Dr. Thomas Robert Alexander Harries Davis, 34, of Rarotonga
in the Cook Islands, and few scholars ever had better excuse for being
tardy. Dr. Davis had sailed 11,000 miles from New Zealand to the
Charles River in his 48-foot ketch Mini,...